Šolc Tomáš

Tomáš Šolc comes from a family of travelling theatre performers, and his father did not want him to be involved in acting, so he first trained to be a toolmaker. He later studied acting at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno, graduating in 1961, and then began his first engagement at the State Theatre in Ostrava. He left there and spent one season in 1964 with the East Bohemian Theatre in Pardubice. Since 1965, he has been a permanent actor at the J. K. Tyl Theatre in Pilsen.

Šolc is also a well-known and respected painter and he has been participating intensively in sport his whole life.

Many of his family members were also involved in acting: his grandfather Bohumír and father František, all four of his sisters (Hana, Jindra, Marie, and Eva), as well as his wife Marta.